Using recorded sessions, I analyze my techniques and problems. Sighted readers will experience some of the confusions and frustrations of a visually impaired person trying to learn the interaction and structure patterns of these website’s. Visually impaired users may glean some ways to avoid pitfalls and determine the value of these government information resources for their purposes. I complain about absence of headings, careless links, and tricky interactions beyond my capabilities although I appreciate the effort to provide high quality government information.

On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. From a usability point of view, irritated users use the search function as a last option when looking for specific information on a website. If a website’s content is not organized properly, an efficient search engine is not only helpful but crucial, even for basic website navigation. In fact, search is the user’s lifeline to mastering complex websites. The best designs offer a simple search box on the home page and play down advanced search and scoping.

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A friend recently asked me for my favorite color picker tool so I thought I’d go ahead and compile them here plus some sites I use for color inspiration. Want more? Check out my delicious collection of webcolor links.

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the elements of non-professional web style, 90s style, with examples

Good home page design is an art -- like the cover of a magazine, or a quick-reference card. Of course it depends on the readership. The CERN home page has to start with the CERN things to minimise the number of keystokes/clicks for the largest number

boring web designs actually let some users accomplish the tasks that people set out to do, so they proliferate. that plus lots of templates = boring.

Why do people do what they do before and after they arrive on your web site? By objectively observing target audience members and carefully analyzing their search behavior, web site owners can improve their web sites

click tracking is the method by which you register urchintracker events in an onclick() stanza; link tagging automates this process.

web design became a sacred art, one done only by the blessed few. In addition, it became expensive, because design changes got in the same queue as programming changes.

In our culture, we're trained from the moment we start reading to scan from left to right, starting from the top left of the page and working down to bottom right. We develop a natural rhythm as we do it, with our eyes moving swiftly to the end of each li

Centrally designed protocols start out strong and improve logarithmically. Evolvable protocols start out weak and improve exponentially. It's dinosaurs vs. mammals, and the mammals win every time. The Web is not the perfect hypertext protocol, just the be

When you advertise through an advertising network, your ads will get fewer fixations than if you contract directly with the publisher for a specific placement and design your creative to fit that spot. As a result, you should bid less for network ads than

nice collection of mid-century graphics

StickerBooks: 90 Stickers - in a book!

reading list for search engine marketing

time sink global associative wordplay

The distinction I make between “content” and “copy” is my own: I don’t pretend this is an industry standard. But we all know copy when we read it: it’s the marketing fluff that serves no purpose but to take up space. It doublespeaks and obfusc

give it a few pages, it writes the code to scrape the data from them

a plugin for wordpress that adds file management tools. (do you know of one similar, different, or better?) kthx

a plugin to hide your wordpress blog, e.g. when you are developing it before it's launched.

CSS-based design doesn’t need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks of your web site’s design (such as headings, navigation, forms, and more) and bri

if you have these problems, you are lucky; and if you know how to solve them, you can capitalize on your opportunties.

social shopping. be my frend and buy stuffs pleez.

keep one of a certain class of postings at the top, and rotate out when the next in the class posts

the web has changed - "web 2.0' and all that - this is a good description of the common design themes in this era.

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free seo-friendly theme for wordpress

better link reporting; compare with site explorer from yahoo

1. make a list 2. be persuasive 3. write how tos 4. ??? 5. PROFIT!!!

ann arbor too. web design meetup

the internets love checklists

the people behind "what should I read next", blog includes thoughtful consideration of monetizing mass web audiences

times page loads for your site using ajax

search strategies that are not one-directional. (ed's theory of berrypicking: walk to the back and pick your way in)
First, a new model of searching in online and other information systems, called "berrypicking," is discussed. This model, it is argued, is much closer to the real behavior of information searchers than the traditional model of information retrieval is, and, consequently, will guide our thinking better in the design of effective interfaces. Second, the research literature of manual information seeking behavior is drawn on for suggestions of capabilities that users might like to have in online systems. Third, based on the new model and the research on information seeking, suggestions are made for how new search capabilities could be incorporated into the design of search interfaces. Particular attention is given to the nature and types of browsing that can be facilitated.

my favorite widget at the moment is the librarything books in my library plugin.

Learn how to reduce the number of HTTP requests required by your web pages by combining adjacent images and optionally imagemapping the links. This tutorial shows both client and server side techniques you can use to save precious HTTP requests and speed

web analytics tool

tutorial on url rewriting with apache.